The Great War: Key Events and Figures

The year is 1914. A single gunshot in Sarajevo… and the world was plunged into chaos. Nations were drawn

into a storm of steel and fire. and unleashed the Great War. Political leaders like Kaiser Wilhelm II

of Germany, The governor Woodrow Wilson of the United States, The Prime Minister

Georges Clemenceau of France. steered their countries through years of turmoil Pershing,

On the front lines, military commanders such as Ferdinand Foch, John J. Pershing, and Paul von Hindenburg

led vast armies into battles that would define the era. From the muddy, perilous trenches of the Western Front to the monumental clashes

the Somme and Verdun, the war tested the limits of endurance and changed the nature of combat forever. After four years of unprecedented destruction,

the signing of the Treaty of Versailles in 1919 brought an official end to the conflict but its consequences would echo for decades.